What is a Bad Backlink?

Bad Backlinks
Bad Backlinks refer to the links that come from untrusted and unrelated sources. These sources are the websites that violate search engine’s terms policies. If your website gets links from those sources, it impacts the SEO of your website negatively on a large scale. Buying bad backlinks may provide you success for a short time but it will devastatingly backfire in the end. These links indicate that your website do not hold quality content and is taking the support of some unreliable sources to get popular.
How to Identify Bad backlinks
The major difference between a good and a bad backlink is the quality of the website that they are present on. There are times when bad backlinks are very easy to find and you can clearly avoid them. But in most of the cases, you have to visit the website for determining the quality of content just to have a rough idea about the presence of the website.
Here are some tips listed down to identify bad backlinks:
1. Irrelevant articles on a website
If a website contains a lot of articles or blog posts that have no connection with each other, it indicates that the site is only designed for the purpose of linking to other websites.
2. Spam Comments
Almost all the websites get a large variety of spam comments on their platform. Sometimes, the spammers make personal comments by appreciating your blog post or content just to fool you. Do not get fooled by such spam comments and block them as soon as they appear on your website.
3. Duplicate contents
The websites that are just set up for the purpose of building backlinks usually contain duplicate and low quality content that makes no sense. Google Panda eventually reaches these sites thus resulting in low quality backlinks for your website too if you are also linked with them.